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- SPARTIUM ferox. 
Barbary Broom. 
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DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Lecuminosm. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. V. Cor. irregularis 
papilionacea, Stam. 10 diadelpha. Leg. 1-loc. 2-valv. Frutices aut herbe ; 
Jol. simplicia aut ternata aut rarius digitata ; stipule@ nunc _subnulle, nunc 
conspicue imo petiolo adnate aut ab eodem distincte—=PAPILIONACEE. 
Brown gen. rem. in Flind. voy. 2. 552. 
_SPARTIUM. Cal. deorsim productus. Carina quibusdam pendula. 
Filam. germini adherentia. Stig. longitudinale, supra villosum. Legum. 
oblongum, mono-aut polyspermum. Persoon syn. 2. 286. 
Div. Folits ternatis. 
S. ferox, foliis ternatis simplicibusque oblongis mucronatis, racemo terminali, 
ramis striatis teretibus spinescentibus. Wdlld. sp. pl. 3, 934. 
Spartium ferox. Desfont, atl. 2. 136. t, 182. Poiret voy. en barb. 2. 206, 
Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 257. 
Spartium heterophyllum. L’ Herit. stirp. 183. 
Cytisus foliis oblongis sessilibus glabris, siliquis compressis incanis. Shaw 
specim. n. 194. 
Caulis fruticosus, 9-15 decimet. altus, ramosus, erectus. Rami numerosz, 
striali. Spine valide, longa, striate, florifere. Fol. glabra aut brevis- 
simé villosa, mucronata, superiora simplicia, lanceolata et obovata, brevissimeé 
petiolata 6-9 millem. longa, 2-4 lata ; inferiora ternata obovata. Flores nu- 
merosi, solitarti, axillares, brevitér pedicellati, in racemos 2-5 centim. longos 
dispositi. Rachis pubescens. Cal. tripartitus; lacintis acutis, inferiore pau- 
lulim longiore, trifidd. Cor. lutea, magnitudine Grnistm® spinose Lin., glabra. 
Germ. argenteum. Legumen subarcuatum, compressum, acuminatum, 2 
centim. lonzum, 4 millem. latum, torulosum, sericeum, incanum villis adpressis 
densis brevissimis, 8-ad 10- spermum. Desf. 1. c. 
Native of Barbary. Introduced about the year 1800. 
With us a hardy greenhouse shrub, flowering in the spring. 
The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley, 
Brames, and Milne, at Fulham. It differs from Spartium 
spinosum by haying the upper leaves simple, and not ter- 
nate as there. 
An upright branching shrub: branches numerous, fluted. 
Spines strong, long, fluted, flowerbearing. Leaves smooth 
or furred with a very short nap, mucronate; wpper ones 
simple, lanceolate and obovate, most shortly petioled; lower 
ones ternate, obovate. Flowers many, solitary, axillary, 
shortly stalked, disposed in racemes. Rachis or general 
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